enthusiastic - Story 44269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She practically skipped towards the results, her heart hammering against her ribs like a hummingbird's wings. Maria couldn’t stop herself from humming a joyous little tune. This was the moment she had been working towards her whole life. She was ready. She would make the team.

The joy dissipated rapidly as she scanned the names. Her name was missing. A wave of emptiness washed over her. She reread the list, willing it to change. The vibrant colors of the posters seemed to fade. She felt a sharp, stinging sensation in her eyes. The song in her heart died.

Emotion: enthusiastic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.81 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.04

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion enthusiastic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 enthusiastic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the enthusiastic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the enthusiastic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.734
`!`	0.715
`excitedly`	0.591
`!"`	0.575
`🤩`	0.575

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.925
`ness`	-0.507
`😞`	-0.456
`それでも`	-0.348
`বারবার`	-0.325